... PIE mediae aspiratae, mediae, and tenues were not in free variation. In order to explain these alleged doublets as AA loanwords, you need either two...
... Yes, and since Proto-Samic can be excluded, I should dig out my copies of papers by Krahe and Schmid dealing more or less with this amber-trail business. ...
... Noreen and I believe Szereményi listed some cases of it. ... Carleton Hodge has a list of examples of that, but I forgot in what book. ... Mřller: ...
... (etc.) This looks pretty outdated - for example, Arabic d. comes from a lateral emphatic in current reconstructions, and I have not seen alveolars derived...
... I'd rather not call something of that sort a theory… ... It's not an old Uralic root at least. And while I don't have an Estonian etymological dictionary...
... That says more about the suitability of the formulation than of the suitability of the theory. Note how your anecdote needs to talk of "naive" mecanics. ...
Does Somebody has any ideea about the Albanian Prefix lë- What is its meaning? Does it have a clear etymology? (some put it in link with Slavic la-) Some...
... Pokorny and Watkins have plenty of alleged examples, some of which I have tried to debunk here (e.g. the phantom *deig^- as a voiced variant of *deik^-,...
... It's not that bad. I think eg. *kam-t- belongs on the forest-steppe border, but *dr-an,W- belongs on the amber trail. ... Somebody, I forgot the name, in...
... Johannes Aavik. "Relv" is an a posteriori coinage, actually ( < revolver). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_vocabulary lists some. John Vertical...
... It is not possible to make an object-based description of a scenario of the movement of physical bodies (including object representations of statements of...
... In the minor Germanic languages (which is why most people are not aware of it) the present suffix is adds another syllable to the root. It is therefore...
... The article is available at <http://www.nostratic.ru/books/(202)The%20implications%20of%20lislakh%20for%20nostratic.pdf> . Of course, sporadic examples are...
http://herodot.glossa.dk/analog.html The Scythian Myth of Origin 'More exciting is the fact that Spartan institutions and traditions may also elucidate...
... One word: "field". And with that, I think I'm done with this tangent. ... You went from "disprooving" to "assignment" here. Would you mean that having...
... I won't rain on your Paradebeispiel; it seems a reasonable enough way of explaining verb-classes with nasal infixation. But I don't see how a similar...
... if -m extensions means "from there to here" *gWem- "to go, from there to here" and -h2-extension means "from here (back?) to there" ? *gWeh2- 'to move...
... True, the method covers only roots with just one extension, plus those where several extensions can be reasonably explained as being variants before the...
... Which is the same as curved space. So you agree there are at least two formulations. ... Oh. That precludes you from answering this: Fields or curved space...
I. FOXP2 is a transcription factor - affecting the expression of many genes ============================================================== "The key point, that...
... Then for 'postpositions' read adverbs overlapping with adpositions. (Shouldn't that be 'appositions'?) After all, the 'pre' in _preposition_ originally...
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0000900 see inside the link the .pdf of the full text Abstract " Yet numerous reports have...
http://jhered.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/96/3/212 "Among mammals, only humans, bats, whales, and dolphins are vocal-learning animals (Haesler et al. 2004)....
... I don't think I will do that, since I need the verb root or stem to be nominal for another reason, namely that I believe the personal endings are...
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